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14 Oct 2021
The LIBRA project finished in March 2019. It was a 3.5 years collaborative project under the H2020 framework programme financed by the European Commission. But it was much more than that. At the end of our last consortium meeting, we did a tour de table, and every participant shared what LIBRA meant for them. The most remarkable aspect that nearly every person in the room stated was that LIBRA ...
25 Jan 2019
We, Daria Shlyueva and Lisa Frankel from the BRIC institute participated in the LIBRA Career Development Compass , which was pilot programme for female researchers from 10 EU-LIFE institutes in 2017. The main elements of the programme were two three-day workshops, a mentoring programme, and networking among the 20 participants. The themes of the workshops included self-leadership, tips for ...
19 Sep 2018
LIBRA organised a panel discussion at the European Science Open Forum with the objective to share our experience in changing institutions towards gender equality. The title was Gender inclusiveness: changing cultures, mind-sets and the design of research structures in life sciences . The session was organised in close collaboration with the coordinator of EU-LIFE Marta Agostinho and Stephane ...
27 Oct 2017
“I shouldn’t be here” said Dr. David Kent to a mostly female audience which barely filled the first few rows of the lecture theatre. Dr. Kent, living in Cambridge, was referring to the struggle by the organisers to find a male scientist, working in Germany, who was willing to talk about equality in Science. Here lies the problem. On October 9th, 2017 the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine ...
27 Oct 2017
This year the association of young researchers of the Institute Curie (ADIC), the student organization of Pasteur (StaPa) and the Central European Institutes of Technology (CEITEC) organized a joint retreat in Brno (Czech Republic). Prof. Adrian Liston was one of the invited keynote speaker. In addition to an excellent scientific talk Prof Liston also spiced up this retreat with a truly inspiring ...
27 Oct 2017
On Wednesday 11th October we held two unconscious bias workshops at CeMM – a morning session for administrative team leaders and LIBRA project managers, and an afternoon session for our Principal Investigators. Based on the excellent recommendation of the Babraham Institute, we engaged Femi Otitoju, Training Director from Challenge Consultancy in the UK to carry out the workshops. In selling the ...
9 Aug 2017
The LIBRA recruitment guidelines have been published in May 2017 and were updated in August to make a clearer distinction between personality and fit , and also to place a greater emphasis on the importance of considering personality when recruiting. Below you can read the updated section from page 14 of the hand book. Structured independent interviews When hiring for a senior position, aim to ...
29 Jun 2017
Back in 2015 CRG started the initiative to reach out a supportive hand to a particular group of the institute´s community, to those scientists who are combining excellent and ambitious scientific career with the parental duties. Being scientifically successful often demands flexible working hours which are an additional challenge for parents. Studies show that women are the ones who are mostly ...
29 Jun 2017
Based on their very definition, projects such as LIBRA are intended to lead to a long-term change at the level of the institution and its overall culture. For this reason, it is essential to implement the gender equality plan in a manner that is sustainable and that depends neither on the duration of the project implementation, nor on any particular individuals in the project team. In this ...
28 Jun 2017
On June 8, 2017, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland hosted a “Women in Science” event for PhD students and postdocs from life science research institutes in the Basel area. 170613_wis_fmi_web_1.jpg FMI director Susan Gasser welcomed the more than 60 participants – from the FMI, Swiss TPH, Biozentrum and Basel University Hospital Department of ...

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